Re: Inbox organisation: folders inside or outside?
Hi On Monday 29 June 2009 at 8:14:50 PM, in mid:1741903574.20090629201...@privateofcourse.co.uk, Privateofcourse wrote: ...and you have to click them a lot ;-) Why do you have to click them a lot? Surely you only click on the folders that have new message, and I would have thought that took the same number of clicks whether they were inside or outside the inbox. Is that not the case? -- Best regards, MFPA Always borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Current version is 4.2.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Inbox organisation: folders inside or outside?
Hello MFPA, This is what you said on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:37:39 +0100 your time: ...and you have to click them a lot ;-) Why do you have to click them a lot? Surely you only click on the folders that have new message... No worried, it was my (obviously failed) attempt at humour. That is, you said: There are pluses and minuses to that. So I was referring to the visual pluses and minuses that you click to expand and minimise the folder tree. Yeah, I know! If you've got a load of nested folders of course it's a lot more clicking :-) -- Simon (Privateofcourse) #24383. Rig Owe New Hods? ¶ TB! 4.2.6 WinXP Pro Service Pack 3 Current version is 4.2.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Inbox organisation: folders inside or outside?
Hello Privateofcourse, On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:49:54 +0100 GMT (30/Jun/09, 2:49 +0700 GMT), Privateofcourse wrote: Any new folder will be under (inside) the Inbox. when I realise that the traffic is significant, it will be moved outside. Folders that are outside might be moved inside if the traffic is little. P That's different...well, to me I mean. Different strokes to different folks. That's normal. Reason is that high traffic folders are reacheed easier when they are shown outside. P I have foolders named 'Inbox - news', 'Inbox - voicemail', 'Inbox - fax' and P 'Inbox - sms' directly under the account Inbox. Under them I have a folder P called Lists, and inside them dedicated folders for lists. All my other P folders are grouped and nested below them in the account tree. So yes, I get P that, as I have moved all the busier folders just below the Inbox. If it works for you, that is OK. Everybody is different. The beauty of TheBat! is that it is very configurable. However, too many folders shown outside makes the account tree view too long, and a lot of scrolling is involved, so low-traffic folders are better located under the Inbox. P Yeah, that's the problem with the folder metaphor though. I can't stop P creating related folders and new categories. I'm always pruning and merging P groups so that the scrolling and navigation is less cumbersome. ;-) I agree. Should this man be under 'Friends' or get his own folder? is a common question I have. Simplifying the problem, of course. I use Incoming filters (and Outgoing filters, should be combined...) rather than Read filters. I have a feeling your paradigm favours Read filters. P From what I posted I can see why you came to that conclusion. It P does rather indicate that I use read filters. However, I don't P really, preferring to use incoming and outgoing filtering and P manually sorting / deleting other stuff that is left. I see. Again, no problem, as TheBat! is so flexible that (almost) anything is possible. -- Cheers, Thomas. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 4.1.11 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 4.2.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
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